how to pronounce lagoon

/ləˈɡuːn/

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lagoon is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of lagoon in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the world's first tidal power Lagoon in …”

meanings of lagoon

noun:

A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

lagoon frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word lagoon occurs in english on average 2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics lagoon can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that lagoon can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;